Growing Up Dead

For Nox, being a vampire in junior high wouldn't be so bad if a) vampires still had super strength, b) his mom would let him play his guitar in the house, and c) the werewolf girl of his dreams would notice he's alive. Nox's life is over when Chug the Thug, a troll who can smell fear and lunch money from three miles away, gets his hands on a picture of Nox's crush. The same picture Nox drew hearts all over and wrote "Nox and Lila forever" on. If Nox can't cough up fifty bucks by Friday, Chug's going public. Worse, when the Battle of the Bands venue says they won't allow vampires, due to recent unsolved vamp-related violence, Nox discovers his "friends" have no problem replacing him… with his crush. Now Nox has less than a week to thwart Chug, solve a mystery, and get back in the band. But when reclaiming his role as rock-star-to-be means hurting the girl he loves, what's a teenage vamp to do?